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Show One of the moBt shocking scandals for many a day, is the one set forth with great minuteness in yesterday morning papers ot Zion. Mr. Mabry, pastor of the First M. E. church, and ' t ' ; -- . . Mrs. Reilly, a parishioner, are the principals. It seems from the statements state-ments that theirarties have been suspected sus-pected for some time and were watched by detectives, who finally, breaking down the door of Dr. Mabry's study in the chirch, found them in the room alone, partially undressed and on6 or both on the bed. Teat's enough to convict and nothing either can do will uj:set that if the detectives will stand to it. The doctor may have enemies, but if every may in Salt Lake were proven to be his bitter foe, it would etill be offset by this compromising compromis-ing fact. The simple fact is, if it is true, that poacher ouirht to be boited in oil. It is bad enough when a layman lay-man steps over, but when the shepherd of the flock goes off after the ewe lambs in this way, simple, plain, unadorned un-adorned death ie too good for him. All that the public is interested in is, is the doctor guilty? If so, the rope ought to do the rest. Is the woman guilty? j If yes, she ought to be turned over to j her injured and betrayed husband to meet the fate he chooses-for her,, which ought to be, If possible, a thousand deaths. Ye gods! are there none virtuous, vir-tuous, not one? What sort of an age is this we haye fallen upon anyhow? It is high time that the church and the law should make a few examples, and this one of the First M. E. church of Salt Lake Ehould be a character punishment. We can say to our big brother in Salt Lake that we are not a bit ''sick" even, but juct as ready to fight anti-democracy anti-democracy as ever, whether it be in the columns of a would-be organ or a platform. plat-form. The Dispatch has made no war on the Herald on woman's suffrage or anything else, which was not called out by previous attacks on the part of the Herald. All statements to the effect ef-fect that The Dispatch commenced the war in any case, are false in toto. The Herald does itself no credit by saying Tna Dispatch is waring upon it or the democracy. The lawyers are going to try to convict con-vict Fulton Gordon and to prove that he knew his wife's fal&e character for a long time. Even if they accomplish all this the fate she and her guilty paramour met at the hands of the injured in-jured man was a most righteous one. Crown had no business going after "a bad woman" who was the wife of another an-other man, bad by repute only. The general verdict is that both met a just and righteous doom. The Herald is posing for the altogether alto-gether ass of the aftermath of the suffrage suf-frage racket. If the vote of the democratic demo-cratic party was taken today the immensity of the untruth that in opposing op-posing suffrage The Dispatch is opposing op-posing the democratic party would become perfectly apparent. In this, as in other positions lately assumed by the Herald on the question of suffrage suf-frage and The Dispatch, it is away off. I i The Herald of Mav 9th makes it very plain that if it and The Dispatch has had a little recent tiff the Tribune and the Standard have had the same sort of an experience, to say nothing of Varian, Glasmann and many other individuals in-dividuals in the republican party. The Herald is now being largely run on the theory that the Tribune is the organ of the Mormon church. For real, down fun this little tiff in which the Salt Lake papers are engaged, is hard to beat. The situation is rapidly becoming amusing, for a fact. The 3ew Statin its fifty-first edition gives it out cold that both the democratic demo-cratic and republican parties must go. This is modest if it isn't truthful or ! reasonable. The Richfield Advocate says it is a republican paper. One would never have thought so, and even with thi declaration we can hardly believe it. |